In “Adobe Flies from Creative Suite into the Creative Cloud,” 8 May 2013, Josh Centers described the stunning announcement made at the Adobe MAX conference that future versions of the sun-dried brick ...
Photoshop, GIMP, etc. should be on the top of your list when it comes to a professional image editing tool to do certain changes including brightness/contrast adjustment, special effects and more.
I'll start out by saying that real, hardcore pixel-pushers will probably only ever use Photoshop. (The same can also be said for Adobe's other powerhouse tools like InDesign and Illustrator, there's ...